Keagan Lorch

Right Forward - SuperSport United
20 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Keagan Lorch

4 Edition

The SuperSport United Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

SuperSport United make Justine Mthwane the dearest name in their history

$120.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.

Match

Nowhere to hide for SuperSport United

5‑9 against Bloemfontein Celtic, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

A day Rivaldo Dolly will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings

Gift Vilakazi scores twice — 8.35

Two goals and a mark of 8.35 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Sifiso Modiba, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96

A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 17-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Rivaldo Mahlangu hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what SuperSport United can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Lokomotiva Zagreb join the queue for Rivaldo Dolly

Add another name to the list: Lokomotiva Zagreb have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Rivaldo Dolly. The answer from SuperSport United has not changed — yet.

Squad

A long afternoon for Williams Mphela

Beaten 9 times, with 3 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.

Match

14 goals as SuperSport United and Bloemfontein Celtic go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 14 goals between SuperSport United and Bloemfontein Celtic, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The SuperSport United Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

SuperSport United sell their best player to Trabzonspor

$5.1M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Squad

Gift Vilakazi takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $5.1M sale of Keagan Dala

He is going to Trabzonspor, the club has $5.1M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Khama Mothiba yet — 7.85

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.85 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Cracovia come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and SuperSport United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about SuperSport United and Black Aces in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Keagan Lorch in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SuperSport United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Gift Vilakazi was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Itumeleng Mphela falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief